'''Trititanium''' is a type of material used in the construction of [[Orion scoutship]] [[hull]]s.

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'''Trititanium''' was a type of material used in the construction of [[Orion scout ship]] [[hull]]s.

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If sufficiently dense, trititanium can block the [[sensors|sensor probes]] of a {{ShipClass|Constitution}} [[starship]]. ({{TOS|Journey to Babel}})

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If sufficiently [[density|dense]], trititanium could block the [[sensor|sensor probes]] of a {{class|Constitution}} [[starship]]. ({{TOS|Journey to Babel}})

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:''According to [[GeneRoddenberry]], trititanium is the materialfromwhichthehullof the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}}ismadeof in his [[novel]]ization of ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture (novel)|Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]''.

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{{bginfo|While the name is similar, according to the ''[[StarFleet Medical Reference Manual]]'' (p.19), trititanium is not the samesubstanceas[[tritanium]].Accordingto the referencebooktrititanium,symbol Tt, atomic weight 328, atomic number 128, was first discovered on [[Motherlode]] in [[2184]].|According to the [[novelization]] of ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture (novel)|Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'' by [[Gene Roddenberry]], the hull of the refitted {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}} was made of trititanium.}}

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:''Trititaniummay be the same substance as [[tritanium]], although this has never been [[canon]]ically established.''